August 13, 2004

  • Eddie: This is one of my all time favorite cartoon shows!

    As a nine year old watching this from Melbourne Australia, I never really got the connection to American history, but thought it was a great cartoon, nonetheless. Add Silly Sidney, Hashimoto, and a selection of classic cartoons from the Terrytoons archives (I think this is where I first saw ‘Flebus‘), and you had one hell of a show…

    Stream the Hector Heathcote Show album at Basic Hip! (click on the album cover, not the text link)

     

    Mascara Sagrada wins rights to his name. Link to article (Spanish)

    From the FPU messageboard:

    “Mascara Sagrada has won a seven year legal battle for the rights to his name! The mess began when Sagrada left the CMLL for upstart lucha promotion TRIPLE A. Big mistake. After it became clear promoter Antonio Pena had no interest in him he tried to leave,but Pena claimed ownership of his mask and name,and even had other wrestlers using that gear.Well after seven years of legal wrangling and lost employment Sagrada can now reclaim his name and will reappear in CMLL shows at the end of August.This is a well deserved FU to Pena,whose way of doing things has hurt lucha libre more than helped it.”

    Mascara Sagrada is a famous masked wrestler in Mexico, whose costume was an inspiration for our very own Super NiƱa  Buena Girl   

    20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. What a shame that this Disneyland ride no longer exists! (link from robot action boy)


    This week:

    • Completed all artwork for our Jive Turkey Experience pitch bible (yay!)
    • We have become official WBA employees. (previously, we were contractors) No, nothing to celebrate! We had to become tax residents after 183 days of working in the states.
    • Yesterday we had the pleasure of meeting Juan Diego from Cineanimadores, the Chilean animation company responsible for Locomotion.com‘s El Santos web series. 
    • Eddie has started the music animatic for our Boy Lobster maintitle
    • Brian McCarty, Toy Photographer extraordinaire, is planning a photo shoot with ML figures! Very intrigued and excited!

Comments (4)

  • 20,000 Leagues had those great-looking Nautilus subs, but the ride itself was really nothing more than a bunch of lame undersea vignettes featuring terrible animatronics. Pirates and Haunted Mansion were/are much better rides.Maybe in the far-flung future, a group of eternally youthful technocrats will resurrect it a la Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom.

  • i had forgotten all about sidney the elephant!
    congrats on being WBA ‘official’… taxes…UGH!

  • Matt – Now I gotta read Cory Doctorow’s book! Yeah, maybe the 20K leagues ride looks better than it really is, but I’d still do it! (Also loved Pirates & Haunted Mansion)
    Sam – that’s right. taxes!!!
    -lili

  • luv the lucha news…

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